Ratramnus of Corbie

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Ratramnus (also: Rathramnus ) von Corbie († around 868) was a Benedictine monk and non-conformist theologian in the Abbey of Corbie .

Little is known about his life. He is best known as the author of a treatise on the Eucharist , De corpore et sanguine Domini liber , in which he contradicts the doctrine of transubstantiation that his contemporary from the same abbey, Radbertus Paschasius , represented in a similar work. Ratramnus tried to reconcile science and religion, while Radbertus emphasized the miracle. They agreed that Christ was present in the Eucharist - according to Radbertus by miracle and real, according to Ratramnus, however, symbolically and in faith. Ratramnus' views were not approved, their author was forgotten, and when the book was condemned as heresy at the Synod of Vercelli in 1050 , it was believed to be a work by John Scotus Eriugena on behalf of Charlemagne . During the Reformation, the book found renewed interest, it was published in 1532 and immediately translated. It was particularly influential in England, where the reformer Thomas Cranmer said that it was Ratramnus who ultimately convinced him of the error of the doctrine of transubstantiation.

At the request of Charles the Bald , Ratramnus wrote two books that took a stand in the debate about election : In De praedestinatione Dei , he advocated the doctrine of predestination . Even the fate of Gottschalk von Orbais did not prevent him from supporting his anti- Hinkmar von Reims views on the correctness of the expression trina Deitas . In his time Ratramnus was known for his four-volume work Contra Graecorum opposita (868), a valued contribution to the controversy between the Western and Eastern Churches that had been triggered by the encyclical Photios I, 867. An edition of De corpore et sanguine Domini appeared in Oxford in 1859. Ratramnus also wrote the Epistola de Cynocephalis in which he enters for the Cynocephali , people with dogs' heads, to be regarded as human (Patrologia Latina 121: 1153-56).

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SURNAME Ratramnus of Corbie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ratramnus corbeiensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine monk and non-conformist theologian in Corbie Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century or 9th century
DATE OF DEATH around 868